11. April 2008
Cottbus / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
WORLD CUP, Cottbus: Women s Qualification rounds ...

WOMEN's World Cup Qualification Rounds

In the Lausitz-Arena in Cottbus (Germany), the qualifications of the FIG World Cup tournament closed successfully. The Chinese won twice - HE, Kexin   on uneven bars and LI, Shanshan on balance beam, European Champion in vault Oksana Chusovitina (Germany) came in first on vault and Sandra Izbasa from Romania was best on floor. 
57 gymnasts representing 24 different nations entered the competition.

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11. April 2008
Cottbus / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
WORLD CUP, Cottbus: MEN s Qualification rounds ...

MEN's World Cup Qualification Rounds

With 117 gymnasts from 41 countries, this year's FIG-World Cup tournament in Cottbus is manned excellently again. 
During the qualifications today in the Lausitz-Arena in Cottbus (Germany), a lot of gymnasts used the competition to find out about their position before the European Championships and the Olympic Games...
Two Chinese gymnasts gained the lead in the men's competitions:  Kai ZOU on floor and Xiaopeng LI on parallel bars. Daniel Keatings (GBR) is leading the competition on pommel horse, favorite Yuri van...

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10. April 2008
Cottbus / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
one day before: American men in a threesome

The US gymnasts are coming without their Olympic Champion Paul Hamm, but still in a threesome to the pre-Olympic World Cup event in Cottbus:
Guillermo Alvarez, Sean Golden and KevinTan, all of them of the WORLDS team in Stuttgart who still remember their displacment to the fourth position by the German squad...!

Especially Kevin TAN is aiming at a revenge facing van Gelder and Jovtshev, who displaced him tp the fourth positions in the WORLDS rings final  ...
Surprisingly,...

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8. April 2008
Cottbus / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
There will also be top-class lady visitors at the World Cup in Cottbus ...

Genuine Pre-Olympic contests...
About 70 young ladies from 32 countries are expected to come to the qualifications in Cottbus on Friday. More than one third of them  - 26 to be exact - just participated in the recent European Championships in Clermont-Ferrand.

Of course, the new German European Champion on vault Oksana TSCHUSSOVITINA will be welcomed happily in Cottbus - by the way for the 12th (!) time since  1990 - actually she could receive the honorary citizenship of Cottbus for this...

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7. April 2008
Cottbus / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
Glance at the the men s World Cup competition 2008 in Cottbus

For the international elite, the qualifications of the 32nd "TOURNAMENT of MASTERS" on Friday, April 11th, in the Lausitz-Arena in Cottbus will be the actual starting signal of the Olympic year 2008. 
The rush corresponds to this:
Over 110 men from 44 countries and 67 young ladies from 31 countries, all of them being the most outstanding representatives of their discipline, will meet to compete and for a serious test of their programs.  
While the ladies can seize their chances for a EuCh-revenge, ( > ...

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